Cutting the fuse offers a wealth of new knowledge about the origins of suicide terrorism and strategies to stop it robert a pape and james k feldman have examined every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009 and the insights they have gleaned from that data fundamentally challenge how we understand the root causes of terrorist campaigns today and reveal why the war on . Cutting the fuse the explosion of global suicide terrorism and how to stop it by robert a pape and james k feldman chicago university of chicago press 2010 360p 3200 cloth 2000 paper the routledge handbook of terrorism research edited by alex p schmid new york routledge 2011 718p 22500 cloth 5495 paper deterring terrorism theory and practice. Cutting the fuse the explosion of global suicide terrorism and how to stop it by robert a pape and james k feldman university of chicago press 2010 360 pp gbp1950 hardback isbn 978 0 226 645605. In cutting the fuse pape and feldman have given us a truly excellent model for how to conduct calm objective social science research on a subject that is difficult to look at calmly and objectively accurately understanding the nature of suicide terrorism though is crucial so that policies can be devised that resolve it rather than make it even worse as the bush administrations . Cutting the fuse the explosion of global suicide terrorism and how to stop it robert a pape and james k feldman abstract this book offers a wealth of new knowledge about the origins of suicide terrorism and strategies to stop it it presents the results of examinations of every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009 and how the insights that have been gleaned from that data